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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Death Deep Diversity Live Men Nature Taste Water
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Break Greatness Knowledge Oneself Small
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Ignorance People Philosophy
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Carry Growth Himself Lose Machine Work
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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Alone Ancient Essence Fundamental Intelligence Quiet Spiritual Technique
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Deep Existence Forget Literature Meaning Poet Word Yourself

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